On October 9, 1967 the SS Pan-Oceanic Faith sank in the north Pacific. Paul Cass and Captain Bill Doherty, who each had classmates perish on this voyage, sit down in the studio to talk about the ship, the crew, and the memories that live on.
Only five of the forty-one man crew survived in the freezing water, Edwin D. Johnson, John Kirk and Oscar C. Wiley were picked up by the Norwegian ship Visund and landed at Long Beach, Gordon L. Campbell and Lewis E. Grey Jr. were picked up by the Japanese ship Igharu Maru and landed at Yokohama, Japan. Only thirteen bodies were ever recovered, eight of them being picked up by the Russian (Soviet) ship Orkehov.
When the Soviet ship docked in Vancouver on Oct. 10 the captain, Leonid Zhezherenko, refused to allow the bodies be unloaded with a crane, which the local authorities were going to use. It was not until stretchers were brought aboard and each man had an American flag placed over his body that the Russian captain allowed the bodies to be removed from his ship. A very respectful gesture toward fellow seamen made by a captain of a Soviet merchant ship during the cold war.
Excerpt from: bit.ly/1tvIJKN
Only five of the forty-one man crew survived in the freezing water, Edwin D. Johnson, John Kirk and Oscar C. Wiley were picked up by the Norwegian ship Visund and landed at Long Beach, Gordon L. Campbell and Lewis E. Grey Jr. were picked up by the Japanese ship Igharu Maru and landed at Yokohama, Japan. Only thirteen bodies were ever recovered, eight of them being picked up by the Russian (Soviet) ship Orkehov.
When the Soviet ship docked in Vancouver on Oct. 10 the captain, Leonid Zhezherenko, refused to allow the bodies be unloaded with a crane, which the local authorities were going to use. It was not until stretchers were brought aboard and each man had an American flag placed over his body that the Russian captain allowed the bodies to be removed from his ship. A very respectful gesture toward fellow seamen made by a captain of a Soviet merchant ship during the cold war.
Excerpt from: bit.ly/1tvIJKN
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